dec 14, 1994 - Leptin is discovered
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Jeffrey Friedman and colleagues discovered the gene that was later discovered to produce the hormone leptin in 1994.Source:
• Zhang Y, Proenca R, Maffei M, Barone M, Leopold L, Friedman JM. Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue. Nature. 1994;372:425–432. doi:10.1038/372425a0.
https://youtu.be/oN3woHJ7ZDY
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dec 14, 1994
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~ 29 years ago
